I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.